If applied correctly, home heating and carbon emission would be reduced using heat pumps based on the Energy Saving Trust’s (EST) heat pump field trial. This finding was welcomed by the Home Heating Guide, the UK’s leading online resource for homeowners regarding all domestic central heating, boiler and renewable energy-related issues, believing that it will benefit the industry and help develop the technology to improve productivity.
Rumors has been going around that the trial release were leaked prior to the official release claiming that heat pumps failed to reduced carbon emission and electricity bills. This, however, suggests that if correctly specified and designed heat pumps were installed, this can reduce both emission and bill cost, according to the trial release.
Design, Commissioning and User operation were identified in the report as sectors that could further develop-key areas that the industry needs to focus on to make relevant improvements. The result revealed that well-installed heat pump could achieve savings especially if installed off the gas grid, replacing LPG and oil. During the trial, technical performance and user behavior across a cross-section of domestic properties in the UK, and different brand of heat pumps were looked and was conducted at 83 different sites.
Heat pumps are ideal for isolated homes with no access to gas networks and who has low-temperature under-floor heating or properly sized radiators.
According to Home Heating Guide’s founder David Holmes that the results were very much in line with what the industry’s expectation is, despite of the recently news reading report that heat pumps are a dead technology. The report also revealed that heat pumps will take longer to warm up the home compared to with boilers because heat pumps provide a lower temperature than the later. Therefore, heat pumps will be used for longer periods, but if monitored and controlled can be managed around when heating is required and And a properly sized and installed heat pump should be able to provide all of a household’s domestic hot water, but many systems are installed with a supplemental electric immersion heater.